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The Commercial use limit is the maximum number of searches LinkedIn members can do free of cost. This limit is calculated based on your search activity since the first of the calendar month.

Specific activities that contribute to the limit include:
– Searching for LinkedIn profiles on LinkedIn.com and mobile.
– Browsing LinkedIn profiles using the People Also Viewed section located on the right side of a profile.

These activities do not count toward the limit:
– Searching profiles by name using the search box located at the top of every page on LinkedIn.com
– Browsing your 1st-degree connections from the connections page.
– Searching for jobs on the jobs page.

If you happen to use any browser plug-ins to search or view LinkedIn profiles, your limits may also be impacted. These tools can run searches and view profiles in the background, which can cause you to surpass the limit without actually running searches on LinkedIn.com. If you happen to use any of these tools, I would suggest you discontinue their use in order to maximize your search experience on LinkedIn.

This was a response from LinkedIn in a community forum on the question of limit of searches.

Showing up on Social Media everyday is extremely tough for small businesses. They need a strategy that works with the limited budget and resources available. #WesleySocial on this webinar will help ease the pain but the toughness will remain. The struggle is real and so are the Olympics but you still want the Gold medal! This webinar will address the following

Job descriptions are not designed to sell you the job, they are there to explain the function of the job. In this webinar we will show you what tools to make free images for your social ads and what are the dos and donts.

Wesley Madziva aka #WesleySocial is a Social Media maverick. His dynamic speaking style enlivened the room, causing even belly-full recruiters at KR’s Electronic Recruitment Conference to perk up and listen as he shared his unique methods for finding candidates who would otherwise remain hidden through social media. As he speaks, he “retweets” quotes from conference participants and other speakers, mimicking the online interactive style of social media marketers.

Often, LinkedIn account holders intentionally hide their profiles from recruiters by misspelling their job titles. Wesley finds them using misspellings: A search for “acountant” rather than “accountant” yields profiles that recruiters using traditional search methods would miss.
Instead of searching for candidates by job title or skill, he searches exactly what they do [e.g bending schedules and drawings], unearthing candidates who might otherwise stayed buried.

He scours diverse social media platforms for his ideal candidates. He has found candidates who are unaware that they have Google Plus accounts, through their Gmail Accounts. All the candidate needs to have entered is a name, and what it is that they do. [By the way: If you have a gmail account, you have a Google Plus account.] He has found candidates using information they’ve entered into the “hometown” and “professional skills” fields on Facebook. He even finds candidates through photo sharing platform Instagram.

Tools such as Followerwonk, Recruitin.net, Socialtalent.co and Intel-sw.com enable him to search social platforms, but his favourite search tool for doing so remains Google. The functions of this powerful search engine are free to use, and Boolean search strings can be used to make Google searches highly specific.

For example, “site:za.LinkedIn.com” specifies that Google should search LinkedIn only.“Intitle:accountant” specifies that only this title should be searched for within the site. The minus symbol specifies which terms to exclude, e.g. “-Trainee”. He boasts that Google enables him to circumvent the need for paid tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter.

This Article was published by Carin on The HR Pulse Site. Click Here for article

The APSO Conference 2016 will be held on 8 & 9 June at the Indaba Hotel & Conference Centre situated North of Sandton, Johannesburg, a picturesque venue, nestled beneath the vista of the magnificent Magaliesberg Mountains. The Hashtag for the Conference is #APSO2016… See You There!

It’s time to find out more about e-recruitment and how to fit it into your HR practices. The emphasis must be on making your e-recruitment strategy more efficient through new methods and approaches! The influence of digital, social and mobile developments is big and ever changing. This means that HR professionals need to think and act strategically and combine the power of social media; job boards and application processing technology in order to win the war on talent. The E-Recruitment Conference offers both recruiters and marketer’s insight into every
facet of e-recruitment, what works and what it could mean for you. Walk away knowing you can implement an e-recruitment strategy tomorrow, know the suppliers and learn from the experts that have implemented world class strategies.

The APSO Conference 2016 will be held on 3 & 4 March 2016 at the Indaba Hotel & Conference Centre situated North of Sandton, Johannesburg, a picturesque venue, nestled beneath the vista of the magnificent Magaliesberg Mountains.

This conference is open to all management, recruiters, suppliers and clients that provide services to the staffing industry

The 2016 Conference boasts one of the most sensational line up of speakers that we have ever had, including:

Clem Sunter – One of South Africa’s most thought provoking and entertaining speakers

Shane McCusker – CEO at 1ntelligence Recruitment Software and a top recruitment specialist in Social Media sourcing

I came across this article Top 20 biggest websites in South Africa. The statistics for Top websites visited by South Africans makes interesting reading for us sourcing geniuses 🙂 Bottom line the masses are on Facebook! so we should be sourcing on Facebook and as we already know they are on Google but Google takes number one and number two spots! I still believe Google Plus will make it big. For those into online advertising, I guess Google.com and Google.co.za should be your targets. Also note how high YouTube is… #2016 will be interesting

Effective Measure is the official traffic measurement partner of the IAB South Africa, and provides accurate traffic and demographics statistics for SA’s top websites.